Marc-Olivier Hinzelin

Contact-induced change in Francoprovençal phonological systems caused by standard French

Abstract The phoneme or sound inventories of different Francoprovençal varieties are presented and compared. Typical Francoprovençal sounds are identified. This serves as a basis to study contact-induced sound change. Language contact and the influence of French on the phonological systems are examined in more detail. Changes are illustrated by corpus data from the Monts du Lyonnais area and compared with other sources, focusing on consonants. Dialectometric analysis of ALF-data confirms heavy French influence on Francoprovençal phonology, which cannot be recent. In the last hundred years, probably only minor changes in unstressed vowels occurred in the area studied.